Never wrong

Guy Marsh states in his letter from 1/25 of how he knows that the Founders would have opposed roadblocks that “it’s a virtual certainty” and yet both the California and US Supreme courts have ruled them legal.

When the Founders created the 4th Amendment I think it’s a virtual certainty that DUI checkpoints weren’t on their minds. Preserving public safety and deterring drunk driving is a far cry from a “police state”.

I did not ignore your Ben Franklin quote, I don’t equate a brief stop for a DUI checkpoint and all it’s benefits as “surrendering essential Liberty’. It’s a minor inconvenience if I’m not impaired while driving.

Why are you opposed to preventing even one fatal accident at the expense of this minor inconvenience?

Marsh’s dismissive condemnation of Dr. Manning has nothing to do with this topic. It seems as if his highly critical response to your original letter has brought about some rationalization that has no bearing on the topic. Obfuscating his response with irrelevant comments doesn’t work.

Because I choose not to respond to some of the letters here and ignore the ridiculous demands for you “and other leftist writers leave the country” it is “revealing”?

With your weekly letters to this paper have you ever sent a letter in which you stated that you were wrong? I highly doubt it but I could be wrong.

Even in this case your original letter printed on Dec. 7 stated “unconstitutional ...... DUI roadblocks” which was pointed out to you as not being true, yet you never acknowledged that to my recollection. That is my best example.

Steve Lockhart

Lancaster